Everything that a review article in the Times Literay Supplement said is true. Having never heard of EW before I ordered the books in the hope that I would read something of interest. I DID. It is an astonishing sequence of novels and an outrage that they are not, up until now perhaps, better known. Old Earth Books are to be congratulated not just for reprinting the sequence; but for producing a well made, good looking paperback. They were difficult to obtain in the UK!